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sportsequip.co.uk provides an easy to use "shopping basket" facility so making a purchase couldn't be easier. Just browse through our product range and click your mouse on the item(s) you are interested in. Full specifications can then be viewed for each item. The required items can be simply added to your "shopping basket" and purchased on line.

After you have finished your selection, click on 'Checkout' and you will be asked for a few details that we need to be able to complete the order. We also welcome orders and card details by telephone, fax or post.

We accept credit card payments including Visa, Mastercard and Maestro. We regret we are unable to accept American Express. All orders are charged in £ Sterling. Under normal circumstances we do not charge for any item until it is ready to despatch. Back ordered items are also not normally charged until they are despatched.

When an e-mail confirmation of order is received by you, this is only to indicate that we have received your order. It does not indicate that a contract exists between us. We will indicate acceptance of your order, and hence a contract between us, only when we send you a written order acknowledgement by e-mail or post. We have included this term to protect us in the case that a mistake has been made in pricing, we have inadvertently under-priced goods, or we are no longer able to supply a particular product for some reason. In the case of a change of price, we will always contact you first to ensure that the price is acceptable.

All prices listed include carriage - see below, 'Deliveries, Shipping and Handling'. If you require a specific carriage quotation, please contact us. VAT is automatically charged at the prevailing UK rate.

28 Days Account Policy

An automatic nett 28 day account is granted to local authorities, local authority schools, government departments & organisations. A full itemised formal authority official order detailing order number, invoice & delivery addresses must be supplied with order. This can be e-mailed to sales@sportsequip.co.uk, faxed to 01858-545890 or posted to sportsequip.co.uk, address as below.

Town Councils, Parish Councils - Nett 28 day account, all as above.

Other businesses - A credit account may be granted subject to credit status. Otherwise by cheque, Pay Pal, debit or credit card details of which must be provided at the time of ordering. We regret that because of increased incidents of attempted fraudulent purchases via Pay Pal we are unable to accept Pay Pal payments for any ball machines and some other selected products with values in excess of £500.00 + VAT.

Businesses applying to open an account, must supply us with the following information:

Contact name

Organisation

Address & Postcode

Contact numbers

E-mail address

Company registration number (if applicable)

Bacs payments can be made to our account at Lloyds TSB, 7 High Street, Leicester, LE1 9FS. Please contact us to request our Bacs branch sort code and account number. Please indicate our invoice number when advising us of Bacs payments.

Private consumers and private sports clubs payment is by cheque, debit or credit card. Details must be provided at the time of ordering.

Credit Card Security Policy

Trustwave certify that this website meets or exceeds PCI DSS compliance standards set for processing credit card transactions. Click on the icon to the right to read more about the security levels in place at sportsequip.co.uk to ensure safe shopping.

When your order is placed on our website, all transactions are processed by our Payment Service Providers (PSP):

We fully understand though that even with these most secure arrangements some of our customers may still have reservations about putting credit card details on the internet. Please contact us by telephone on 01858-545789 if you would prefer to advise us of these details personally.

Delivery, Shipping & Handling Policy

Prices include delivery - this means that subject to specified minimum quantities our prices include postage costs in the UK or standard 3 day carrier services for most items to mainland Britain within a 350 mile radius of Tur Langton, Leicestershire. Beyond 350 miles a surcharge is payable, and we will contact you for authorisation before proceeding with your order. This includes deliveries to the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man. For palletised deliveries such as tennis court dressings, play tiles and imported pitch shelters the free delivery radius is reduced to 250 miles and for certain large products e.g. cricket scoreboxes and sightscreens that require erection by a delivery team, the free delivery radius is reduced to 125 miles.

sportsequip.co.uk despatch the majority of goods by 3 day carrier i.e. those that aim to deliver within 3 working days of collection and require a signature upon delivery. We also despatch some small items by standard post.

Please note that the carriers and delivery services we use will usually deliver during the working day. If it is unlikely that anyone will be in to sign for your order you may find it easier to give an alternative or work address. We reserve the right to charge a redelivery fee if the customer is not there to collect the goods as arranged for heavy or bulky items.

Large items e.g. football & rugby goal posts, cricket cages, cricket sightscreens, scoreboxes, fitness & p.t. trails, playground surfacing and tiles may require special delivery arrangements or may require manufacturing to order. These may take up to 30 days or occasionally longer to despatch, in which case we will liaise with you and keep you fully advised.

Most of our goods are delivered on large lorries. Any delivery access restrictions must be advised to us at the time of ordering. Any special arrangements required because of limited access are subject to extra cost.

Deliveries are to agreed addresses only. Carriers drivers can not be expected to exceed manual handling regulations. Therefore it is always the customers responsibility to offload goods from lorries, including arranging for mechanical means if appropriate.

Express or 24 hour delivery can be arranged on most items upon request for an additional fee.

Signing For Goods

Please check your goods carefully upon delivery for any signs of possible damage before you sign to say that you have received the goods in good condition. If you find the internal contents have been damaged we recommend that you cross out the word 'Received in good condition' and write 'Damaged' before you sign, or to write 'Damaged' above your signature. This is to ensure that a claim can be made against the courier company if necessary.

If you have previously signed to declare that you received your order in good condition it is extremely difficult for us to claim that your goods were damaged if you do not use the correct wording.

sportsequip.co.uk accept no liability for any consequence arising as a result of any instruction to deliver goods without signature.

Export

Our site is primarily aimed at the British market and our "shopping basket" facility calculates VAT for British mainland deliveries only.

However, we recognise the worldwide coverage of our site and welcome overseas orders.

Prior to accepting orders outside mainland Britain, we need to agree upon shipping methods and advise you of the charges involved. These are passed on at cost.

For Business orders from the UK, VAT is added at the standard rate. For Business orders from the European Union, VAT can be zero rated ONLY upon sight of evidence of a valid EU VAT number. All other worldwide orders are zero rated for VAT.

Please send your e-mail enquiries detailing your preferred method of shipping in English, French or German to our sales office.

Privacy Policy

sportsequip.co.uk is fully committed to protecting the privacy of all personal information provided by our customers and uphold strict security procedures for the storage, use and disclosure of such personal information. We do not disclose buyers' information to third parties other than when order details are processed as part of the order fulfilment. In this case, the third party will not disclose any of the details to any other third party.

We only store your personal credit / debit card information when you place an order. It is also not our current policy to make unsolicited contact with previous customers except for our own marketing purposes, nor to transfer their information outside the EEA (European Economic Area) without obtaining consent first.

Data collected by this site is used to:

a. Take and fulfil customer orders

b. Administer and enhance the site and service

c. Only disclose information to third-parties for goods delivery purposes

All data collection and transactions are carried out in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.

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Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

How do we use cookies?

Cookies are used on this shopping site to keep track of the contents of your shopping basket, to store delivery addresses if the address book is used and to store your details if you select the 'Remember Me' Option. They are also used after you have logged on as part of that process and for statistical analysis to help improve our website. You can turn off cookies within your browser by going to 'Tools | Internet Options | Privacy' and selecting to block cookies. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use cookies.

We also make use of Google Analytics/Adwords, including Remarketing features to display advertising for sportsequip.co.uk on sites across the Internet.

sportsequip.co.uk and Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third party cookies (such as the Doubleclick remarketing cookie) to (a) inform, optimize and serve ads based on a user's past visits to sportsequip.co.uk, and/or (b) report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to sportsequip.co.uk.

Data from Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting may be utilised by sportsequip.co.uk to help recognise and understand user preferences, to make improvements to sportsequip.co.uk, to choose content and advertising to display to you, and for other business purposes that will allow sportsequip.co.uk to better serve you.

Returns Policy

If the equipment supplied is faulty, it is covered by manufacturers guarantees. In the unlikely event of any goods developing a fault within the guarantee period, they may be returned for an immediate replacement or a full refund, whether they have been used or not. “Faults” are defined as manufacturing defects, not those that may be caused by incorrect installation, abuse or fair wear and tear of the equipment.

We reserve the right to pass on all delivery and collection charges plus any restocking fees incurred up to 25% of the sales value of any goods being returned not as a result of product faults. Please note that customers have a statutory duty of care for the safe return of goods, i.e. undamaged, other than the reported fault. Returned goods should be well packaged in, if possible, the same wrappings and packaging originally supplied and must be suitably protected to withstand the rigours of return transportation/post.

Complaints Policy

sportsequip.co.uk operate a full and fair complaints procedure. We pride ourselves in high levels of customer satisfaction, achieved through a user friendly site, a simple ordering process, a diverse choice of payment methods and strict adherence to our stated terms and conditions. If we have failed to live up to your expectations in any way, we would like to hear from you so that we can put it right.

If the complaint relates to the quality or specification of a particular product you have purchased, please in the first instance refer to our comprehensive returns policy.

For any other type of complaint, please send an e-mail to complaints@sportsequip.co.uk We aim to respond within 3 working days to your complaint. If beyond that you are still not satisfied, we are members of certain trade associations. To gain membership certain standards of experience, proficiency, stability and commercial experience are required. Free services offered by these associations include arbitration panels, and it is a condition of continued membership that as members of an association we abide by the rulings of the arbitration panels. These mediation services are normally restricted to technical rather than contractual aspects. Please feel free to contact the most relevant of these associations directly to ask for their advice.

Every effort will be taken to resolve the complaint fairly and quickly, to our mutual satisfaction.